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Traces the simultaneous crafting of political power, the codification of a historical record, and the unfolding of cultural change
Writing History at the Ottoman Court
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Pages: 201
Authors: H. Erdem Cipa
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-06 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state str
The Album of the World Emperor
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Authors: Emine Fetvacı
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-07 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The first study of album-making in the Ottoman empire during the seventeenth century, demonstrating the period’s experimentation, eclecticism, and global outl
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Language: en
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Authors: Jane Hathaway
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A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.
Picturing Russia
Language: en
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Authors: Valerie Ann Kivelson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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What can Russian images and objects—a tsar’s crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palace—tell us about the Russian people and their cu